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Developments and Lettings News 2011
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Detailed plans for the first phase of a new Skelmersdale town centre are to be revealed by regeneration specialist St. Modwen in early 2012. The announcement follows a Skelmersdale Summit meeting on Friday 16th December, ...


The Blue Ice Solihull Rink is holding a New Year’s Eve skating extravaganza in memory of Harry Moseley - the inspirational 11-year old Birmingham boy who lost his battle against brain cancer earlier this year. Harry...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, is set to adapt part of Melton Park for new homes. Following consideration of the long-term prospects for extensive commercial development, weighed against the current need for ...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has an exciting line up planned in the build up to Christmas at Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre. • A church choir will be singing Christmas carols at ...


St. Modwen has submitted plans to North West Leicestershire District Council in relation to land it owns off Ravenstone Road/Coalville Lane, Coalville. The submission of the application follows on from a well-attended public consultation...


Plans go on display next week for the new cinema & restaurant development within Kingsmead shopping centre in Farnborough. New facilities are proposed for Kingsmead, including: • A new seven-scree...


12,000 sq ft of lettings secured as three new companies arrive and two existing tenants expand Leading IP-based satellite communications company iDirect and online travel agency Direct Flights have joined the ever-growing...


Macclesfield Town Football Club ( www.mtfc.co.uk ) has entered into an agreement with the UK's leading regeneration specialist St. Modwen to bring forward proposals for the relocation of the club's stadium. The npower Lea...


Edmonton Green has signed up yet another popular high street name to add to its growing number of fashion and lifestyle shops - the well-known sports retailer, Sports Direct. The shop will be opening in late spring 2012, ...


Staff at The Meads shopping centre in Farnborough are celebrating being awarded an internationally-recognised health and safety standard. It becomes one of only a few shopping centres in the country to be awarded the OHSAS 18001 accredit...


St. Modwen has submitted plans to develop a multi-million pound, high quality housing scheme on land off Pye Green Road, Hednesford, Cannock, which will generate around 1,000 jobs in the construction of the new houses. Th...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has signed up BrightHouse as the latest tenant at its £90m Wembley Central regeneration scheme. BrightHouse, which provides top brand household goods on lo...


St. Modwen, the developer behind the £50 million Hednesford Gateway development, has gifted part of the original dance floor from the Aquarius Community / Dance Hall to Cannock resident Alana Grew, whose late husband Geoff laid the...


St. Modwen Homes, part of St. Modwen Properties PLC, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, is launching the first phase of new homes this weekend, Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th November, at its unique Locking Parklands developm...


Plans for the next 21,000 sq ft office building at St. Modwen’s £100 million Longbridge Technology Park have been given the green light by Birmingham City Council’s Planning Committee. Three Devon Way is...


Demand is rising for industrial units in North Staffordshire, reports regeneration specialist St. Modwen. Less than a year after acquiring Queensway Industrial Estate in Stoke-On-Trent, St. Modwen’s management of th...


Plans for new cinema and restaurants to go on display   Plans go on display next week for the new cinema & restaurant development within Kingsmead shopping centre in Farnborough. New faciliti...


Birmingham based developer St. Modwen has donated £10,000 to The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country’s Moseley Bog and Joy’s Wood regeneration project – an amount that has funded an outdoor classro...


A planning application has been submitted by St. Modwen to East Staffordshire Borough Council for a proposed development to the south of Branston village, Burton-on-Trent. Bounded by the A38 and the River Trent, St. Modwe...


This Christmas, Edmonton Green will once again be filled with the sound of music, as the fabulous and eagerly anticipated Xmas Factor is back!! For the second year running the Centre, owned by St Modwen, is hosting its ve...


Just two months after the launch, St. Modwen Homes has revealed that 30 properties have now been reserved at its Park View development in Longbridge; the first new homes to be built on the site of the former MG Rover Works. ...


St. Modwen, one of the UK’s leading developers, is inviting members of the public to a consultation event regarding its proposals for land off Ravenstone Road, Coalville. St. Modwen is proposing a sustainable scheme...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist has submitted a planning application to East Staffordshire Borough Council for a regeneration scheme off Derby Road in Burton on Trent. The proposals include up to 300 new homes ...


St. Modwen, on behalf of Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration Ltd., has submitted an outline planning application for the latest phase of its growing Etruria Valley development. The application is for the development of the next 1...


The first phase of work has started on a £20 million regeneration scheme which will transform a run down seven-acre site in Burnley, adjacent to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. St. Modwen has started site clearance w...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has submitted a planning application for the final phase of its £90m Wembley Central regeneration scheme to the London Borough of Brent. Plans for the sche...


Widnes’ new cinema multiplex welcomed more than 1,500 visitors through its doors over the weekend after opening to the public on Friday (14th October). The five-screen, fully-digital Reel Cinema is the second attrac...


Liverpool’s real ale lovers will be in heaven this week as St Anthony’s Church on Scotland Road hosts its fifth annual beer festival. The three-day event, which gets underway on Thursday 20th October, will see...


St. Modwen has agreed a five-year lease for 3,600 sq ft at Quinton Business Park, Birmingham, with specialist building envelope contractor, Prater Limited. The Surrey-headquartered company, which delivers design and insta...


An outline planning application has been submitted by St. Modwen and Davidsons Developments Ltd to Telford & Wrekin Council for the South East Newport Masterplan. The application for the site, which lies one mile to t...


Liverpool City Council and its development partner St. Modwen have completed a thorough review of objections raised to the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) and concluded that there is a ‘robust case’ for Project Jennifer to pr...


St. Modwen has reported continued growth of the business community at its Longbridge Technology Park with over 80 per cent occupation of the first two completed properties. Situated off the A38 (Bristol Road South) St. Mo...


St. Modwen has secured the letting of Buildings 1 and 2 of its Brockton Business Park scheme in Brockton, Telford, to CML Fulfilment & Logistics Ltd. The dedicated logistics specialist delivers chilled, frozen and amb...


Some 75 new jobs have already been created at Widnes’ new leisure development The Hive, weeks before many of its attractions are due to open. The new jobs have been created across the family-orientated scheme’...


The next stage in the £50 million redevelopment of the former Pyrex site in Sunderland, has recently been given the go-ahead by Sunderland City Council and the development of 212 new family homes will start imminently. <br ...


The residents of Wythenshawe can now enjoy a gum-free shopping experience, after more than 2,000 pieces of used chewing gum were removed from the town centre’s streets. The clean-up programme was managed by town cen...


Developer St. Modwen has commenced construction at the new £8m Phoenix Retail Park in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. Reinforcing St. Modwen’s commitment to regeneration in the region, the first phase of the project ...


Property regeneration specialist St. Modwen has completed a letting with property and building solutions supplier Integrated M & C Services Ltd (IMCS) for a 1,292 sq ft office building at The Oaks Business Park, Clews Road in Redditc...


Leading airline pilot training provider Cabair International has expanded its presence in the Innovation Centre at Cranfield University Technology Park. In the 5 years it has been based at the Tech Park Cabair has doubled its floor space...


The Blue Ice Plaza Complex in Solihull is offering ice skaters of all abilities the opportunity to keep cool and learn new skills at its Summer Skate Camp 2011. Running from 14-19 August the week long camp is open to skat...


Richard Fuller, MP for Bedford and Kempston, has visited Cranfield University Technology Park to learn more about the leading innovative businesses based there and the technical advancements being made in the region. Scre...


The Leeds office of St. Modwen took a major step forward in its proposal to deliver a new £20 million, 135,000 sq ft facility at Teal Park in North Hykeham, near Lincoln this week. A ground-breaking ceremony marked the offi...


The first new car park to be delivered as part of the £50 million Hednesford Gateway development has been opened to the public by developer St. Modwen in time for the school summer holidays. Over 50 new car parking ...


Leading regeneration specialist St. Modwen has welcomed local school children onto the £12.5 million Park View residential development at Longbridge in a bid to highlight the dangers associated with playing on building sites. </...


St. Modwen has completed the latest phase of infrastructure work at its £100 million urban village development in Newton-le-Willows. The UK’s leading regeneration specialist has delivered 40 acres of new ..


Eco-friendly pupils from two local primary schools were given the chance to swap their school books for hard hats this week as part of a special visit organised by Locking Parklands’ developer, St. Modwen, to the regeneration schem...


St. Modwen has achieved 100 per cent occupation at its Centre 38 scheme at Barton Business Park following the letting of the final and second largest property to Simarco International Limited. The international freight and logist...


Staff at The Meads shopping centre in Farnborough are celebrating being awarded the prestigious Investors in People standard. The nationally-recognised accreditation demonstrates the centre’s commitment to, and progress in, develop...


St. Modwen, the developer of the £400m Locking Parklands development has launched an apprenticeship and work placement scheme with Weston College. The projects first phase will offer a minimum of five students the chance to make th...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has agreed a ten-year lease to BJS Storage & Distribution Limited at Parkside Industrial Estate in Doncaster. The local logistics company which needed to expand its storage ...


Over 100 people have already registered with St. Modwen Homes to be the first people to view the plans for Park View in Longbridge, Birmingham. Situated off the tree-lined Lickey Road, the development of 115 houses and ap...


A development agreement has been signed between St. Modwen and Birmingham City Council for a new £5 million youth centre, which will be built at the heart of the Longbridge regeneration project. The ‘myplace..


St. Modwen and its partner Advantage West Midlands have today received planning permission from Birmingham City Council for the new £70 million Longbridge town centre, which will create over 1,000 jobs. The new Long...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has secured 22,000 sq ft of new lettings at its 31-acre Pegasus Business Park in Hillington, Glasgow. National furniture retailer Morale Furnishings has taken a ...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has secured a 16,000 sq ft letting at Stonebridge Park in Liverpool. Housing association Liverpool Mutual Homes (LMH) has taken an industrial unit at the 30-acre...


Costa Coffee has just opened a brand new store at Edmonton Green Shopping Centre. Located on the Centre’s North Mall, the 800sq ft store will add to the extensive food and drink offer at Edmonton Green. The new coffee shop ...


Jet Total Vehicle Solutions plc has signed a deal with St. Modwen to take approximately 300,000 sq ft of space in a number of newly refurbished units on a 15 year lease, plus eight acres of open storage at Long Marston Business Park in W...


A public consultation event was held on June 15th for a proposed development to the south of Branston Village, Burton-on-Trent.   Bounded by the A38 and the River Trent, the draft proposals include the creation of up t...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has signed a £20 million pre-let and development deal for a new 135,000 sq ft facility at Teal Park, Lincoln, with Siemens PLC on a 12 year lease. This new...


St Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has successfully let another unit at Melton Park, Hull. Nottingham Rehab Supplies has signed a ten year lease on the 12,000 sq ft unit in a move which will create...


St. Modwen has signed three new deals at its Discovery Court Business Centre in Poole, Dorset. WDSGlobal, which provides specialist managed services to the mobile industry and already occupies 14,155 sq ft, has taken an a...


The UK’s leading regeneration specialist, St. Modwen is to hold a public consultation event for a proposed development to the south of Branston village, Burton-on-Trent. Bounded by the A38 and the River Trent, St. M...


Key Property Investments (KPI)*, the owner of Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, has released two concept images illustrating the scale of change envisaged at the shopping centre. The images were shared yesterday even...


Regeneration specialist St. Modwen has agreed a 10-year lease for the 7,291 sq ft unit at Great Western Business Park, Worcester with technology company Nemesis GB. A leader in the importer and distributor of mobile techn...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has signed two new deals with T-Mobile and local optician Betterspecs at its Wembley Central development. T-Mobile is to take a 1,800 sq ft unit on Wembley High ...


The £150 million mixed use redevelopment of the 88-acre former Goodyear Works site in Wolverhampton is gathering pace with two major milestones reached by regeneration specialist St. Modwen and the joint venture residential partner...


Blackburn Innovation Centre has signed-up to a new service offering free office space to overseas businesses investing in the North West. The scheme, called Hello Northwest, is a Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWD...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has started work on site to deliver an additional 1,500 sq ft of retail space in Wythenshawe town centre. The five new units are further proof of growing confide...


The UK’s leading regeneration specialist St. Modwen has ‘topped out’ its new Etrop Court development in Wythenshawe, starting the final phase of the 100,000 sq ft scheme’s construction. The ..


Planning permission has been granted for a 60-bed Premier Inn to be built at Widnes’s new £10m leisure scheme developed jointly by St. Modwen and Halton Borough Council. The four-storey hotel, which includes a...


Widnes' new £10 million leisure scheme, as part of the Widnes Waterfront regeneration, is moving forward apace, with local firms both providing supplies and carrying out the final stages of construction. The UK's le...


St. Modwen and Persimmon Homes are inviting members of the public to a consultation event regarding the proposals for the first phase of development at the 470 acre Long Marston Estate, Warwickshire. The event will take place between 4pm...


Card Factory is the latest retailer to be attracted to the new £15 million Quay Shopping Centre at Connah’s Quay, North Wales. The greetings card company has taken a 2,000 sq ft unit from Centre owner and deve...


St. Modwen and Persimmon Homes are inviting members of the public to a further consultation event regarding their latest updated proposals for the former Longbridge East site on Groveley Lane, Birmingham. The event will take place betwee...


Retailers in Wythenshawe town centre have recycled 10 tonnes of cardboard in just six weeks. The success follows the launch of an initiative by town centre owner St. Modwen to reduce waste by half and recycle as much card...


The UK's leading regeneration specialist St. Modwen has been granted outline planning permission for a major project in Openshaw, east Manchester. The £20 million scheme will redevelop a 10-acre site, previously occ...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has submitted a planning application to Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council for the £5 million development of the former Tyco Electronics Factory on Wheatley Hall Road,...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has launched its second phase of commercial development at Langford Mead after completing a £5 million programme of infrastructure works at the £115 million scheme, ...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist and owner of Wythenshawe Town Centre, has secured 100 per cent occupancy of the Town Centre’s current retail space with a letting to Phones4U. Phones4U is t...


St. Modwen has received planning approval for a major regeneration project that will breathe new life into a former industrial site at Rumer Hill in the heart of Cannock. Cannock Chase District Council has given the green...


St. Modwen is continuing to trade on success in Stoke-on-Trent, reporting 100 per cent occupation at Fenton Trade Park alongside securing occupiers for all 14 units at its new development, Queensway Industrial Estate. The...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has boosted its North West portfolio with the £4 million acquisition of The Market Precinct in Farnworth, Bolton. The acquired site includes 21 units, let ...


Construction work has commenced on the first new homes to be built as part of St. Modwen’s £1 billion regeneration of Longbridge. The scheme of 115 houses and apartments is the first housing development in the UK by St. Modwe...


Edmonton Green’s Lidl store is growing to double its current size after the supermarket retailer completed a deal to lease the two adjoining units. The store will expand to13,000 sq ft on a 20 year deal, making it one of the Centre...


Pupils from Fernhill Primary School have won a competition to have their artwork featured on temporary hoardings around The Meads shopping centre in Farnborough. The project, which saw over one hundred designs submitted b...


Following the Budget announcement last week, St. Modwen is pleased to continue its support for growing businesses with the arrival of Screenetics as a new tenant in its Innovation Centre at Cranfield University Technology Park. ...


St. Modwen has been given the green light to progress its £50 million Hednesford Gateway development, following planning approval for the Park element of the scheme from Cannock Chase Council. The approval for revis...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has let the final commercial office unit at its Haletop East retail and office development on Rowlands Way, Wythenshawe. The Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), the in...


A major planning application has been submitted to Sunderland City Council regarding the £10 million redevelopment of the former Pyrex site, located off Pallion New Road. The St. Modwen and Persimmon Homes joint venture has submitt...


The UK’s leading regeneration specialist St. Modwen has been granted outline planning permission and conservation area consent for a major mixed-use development in Burnley. The approved £20 million scheme will...


St. Modwen has agreed a 10 year lease for the 6,435 sq ft Unit 402 at its Great Western Business Park with Automotive parts distributor Andrew Page Ltd. The unit, which will be used as a distribution centre, will benefit ...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has been granted planning consent to create a photovoltaic park at its Baglan Bay site in Port Talbot. The application, approved by Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council, is ...


St. Modwen has signalled the beginning of the £100 million transformation of Long Marston in Warwickshire with the appointment of demolition contractor PM Harris. Representing the first phase of the Long Marston Mas...


Liverpool City Council has officially made the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) needed to progress the £150 million regeneration of Great Homer Street, signalling another major step forward for the project. The CP...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, and the owner and developer of Quedgeley West Business Park has appointed Alder King to support its expansion plans for the £42 million development. The Gloucester office ...


Wolverhampton City Council has granted detailed planning approval for the first 314 new homes to be constructed on the 88 acre Goodyear Works site, located off Stafford Road. The residential planning application is the fi...


St. Modwen Properties PLC (LSE: SMP), the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, announces that it has been granted outline planning permission for the Bay Science and Innovation Campus for Swansea University, which is situated a...


St. Modwen has received planning approval for a £15 million new casino, hotel and office development in Oldbury, which will act as the catalyst for the creation of approximately 120 jobs at the casino alone. Situate...


St. Modwen has boosted the provision of office suites at Longbridge Technology Park in response to increased demand from technological businesses and existing occupiers of the Park’s Innovation Centre. With the Inno...


Construction work at Venture Fields, the £10m leisure scheme developed jointly by St. Modwen and Halton Borough Council, is beginning to take shape with the emergence of the steel works on site for the cinema and bowling units. <br...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has confirmed details of the opening of a new Co-operative Food supermarket at its Wembley Central development. The Co-op has taken 10,000 sq ft of space and has...


Construction of the brand new £66 million Bournville College at Longbridge has reached an important milestone, with regeneration specialist St. Modwen, Shepherd Construction and the College celebrating the topping out of the develo...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has opened new public toilets at Wembley Central, built as part of the £90 million regeneration of Wembley town centre. The new toilets will be clean and sa...


Widnes Regeneration Ltd, the joint venture between St. Modwen Properties and Halton Borough Council, is bringing a 12-acre development site in Widnes to market. The site, known as Harrier Business Park, will offer bespoke design and buil...


St. Modwen and its partner Advantage West Midlands have submitted a detailed planning application to Birmingham City Council for the £70 million Longbridge town centre – a major mixed-use element of the £1 billion flags...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, is inviting members of the public to a consultation event regarding its proposals for the former Castle Works industrial site, which is located within walking distance of Staffo...


St. Modwen Properties Plc (LSE: SMP), the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, announces that it has submitted a detailed planning application to develop the town centre at Longbridge and separately acquired two plots of land comp...


2011 has got off to a great start at Leegate shopping centre with the announcement of two new deals. St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has been granted consent for a new street market at the Lewisham centre and ...


Two major planning applications have been submitted to Newport City Council to bring forward the first phase of development at Glan Llyn, a project redeveloping the former Llanwern steelworks to the east of Newport, South Wales into a ..


Just two units now remain at St. Modwen’s 60,000 sq ft Fenton Trade Park development of speculative industrial and distribution space in Stoke-on-Trent. Comprising 22 small industrial and warehouse units ranging fro...


2011 looks bright for The Trentham Estate which has reported achieving record visitor levels and annual tickets sales in 2010 alongside improved turnover across the Garden Centre and Shopping Village. 2010 was a hugely su...


A joint bid to secure £3.85 million of Regional Growth Fund (RGF) support has been submitted by developers to help accelerate the delivery of two multi-million pound strategic employment sites within the East Devon and Exeter Growt...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, has started on the first phase of works at Locking Parklands – a project redeveloping the former RAF Locking site near Weston-super-Mare into a £400 million business...


Plans for a new £5 million youth centre, to be developed at the heart of the Longbridge regeneration project, have been given the green light by Birmingham City Council’s planning committee. The ‘Myplace...


Demand remains strong for business village and office locations in Stoke-on-Trent, reports regeneration specialist St. Modwen. The company saw continued demand for space within office villages through 2010, resulting in 1...


St. Modwen has submitted an application to the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) for £22 million to contribute towards significant essential infrastructure improvements at Longbridge, Birmingham. If successful, 320 new private sector cons...


St. Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist and Taunton Deane Borough Council’s development partner for the £270 million Firepool scheme in Taunton, completed a pre-letting to leading UK recycling, renewable en...